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Both behaviors are documented and "if not midnight" adds a fair bit of complexity, probably a good idea to know exactly what happens when you write that. [1] https://docs.python.or…

Geoffrey Hinton's archived course is all about neural nets, I think you can enroll in the archived version, no code, just theory. https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

In 2007 a Czech art group hacked a webcam and incorporated a nuclear explosion at the location it monitored. It later got showed on a weather news segment. https://www.youtube.com/…

Check out Open Refine. Has a feature that clusters similar strings and unifies. I remember last time I looked at this data set... 4 letter acronyms spelled 12 different ways, it's …

Shiny is pretty nice for presentations and Plotly works with R. Not to knock IPyNb because I love it too. http://shiny.rstudio.com https://plot.ly/r/shiny-tutorial/

AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia

That's most likely what happened. Search and Identification branch of the Crime Bureau (?) worked with Sweden in the past - these guys http://www.policja.pl/pol/kgp/biuro-sluzby-kr…

Stable is up on pypi.

They restored full access for Syria.

Taleo makes a great job making it as painful as possible to search and apply for jobs. I find it pretty funny a "hack" of how to look through taleo listings is in an article about …

Couple weeks ago these photos from a Hong Kong based mining facility floated up, pretty crazy setup. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.msg3709913#ms...

He is apparently involved with Intellectual Ventures, so while probably not directly involved in killing the reform, this isn't the most noble of positions. http://arstechnica.com/…

You might like Data Analysis from Coursera. https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis From the post it looks like Udacity too is working on courses that address this.

I think it means "#1 son". Bender and Flexo follow the same numbering pattern. Makes sense if you assume all bending units' serial numbers are expressible as sums of two cubes.

What about concurrent.futures from standard library?

btw, Python 3.3 introduced ChainMap for "merging" dicts. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections#collections.C...

How it's pronounced: http://www.khon2.com/2013/09/10/action-line-state-alters-wom...

I've been working on another one of those apps. It's a real pain in the ass to get accurate location. Both NER or regex location extraction and geocoding services can be slow and i…

Typesafe also just announced a tutoring program for this and the intro course. http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tu...

Coursera has a class as well. Martin Odersky tweeted a while ago about a possible advanced course in the fall but it doesn't look like it's happening yet. http://www.coursera.org/c…

Incidentally Coursera's Intro to Data Science looks/ed to be a trial run for the first of three classes in the UW Data Science certificate program [1]. Each class is a bit over $1k…

For you there's an additional tool. Salaries for sponsored persons is public data. http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm

Race doesn't necessarily mean ethnicity.